This Boy's Life

In the final pages of Tobias Wolff's memoir This Boy's Life, he writes:  "When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to at in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters.  We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever."
This memoir is filled with entertaining stories and some insight.  This post is just to recommend the book to anyone interested.